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Weekly Web Wonder #8 – Manga High

Manga High is a free games-based maths teaching resource.  It is of very high quality!  The games look credible, and are attractive to pupils, who are motivated to play them.

As a teacher, Manga High provides you with a number of tools to monitor and assess the progress of your pupils.  You also get to assign different games or challenges to pupils and pupil groups.  (This is even better when the stars at your local authority set up all your pupil logins for you!).

(url – http://www.mangahigh.com/en_gb/)

Weekly Web Wonder #3 – Spelling City

This week we have the rather splendid and very handy Spelling City.
Spelling City offers a range of games and activities to help learn spelling words.  You can listen to them – advise headphones to avoid cringe worthy American accents.  You can either just type in a few words to work with, or access saved lists.  I’ve been submitting Target Spelling lists for a while, so there are plenty to choose from here.
Basically select a list, then choose Teach, Test or Games.  There’s something for everyone here, great for reinforcing this weeks words, extending those who are doing well, or another way of challenging those who are struggling.  The words are also put in sentences, so it is good for sentence building and putting words in context.

Weekly Web Wonder #2 – Primary Games Arena

Primary Games Arena is the largest resource of Primary School games in the universe.
You can select games via subject or year.  It is based on the English system, so just add 1!  so Year 5 = Primary 6 etc.
Lots of simple little games for follow up, fast finishers or extension activities.
Plenty of Maths and Language activities.
Warning: Check beforehand that links aren’t blocked!

Weekly Web Wonder #1 – BBC Learning Clips

Back in the day, I used to send out a (hopefully) useful website link to the school staff.  Not really that radical an idea, and most were pretty well known – to those moving in the right ICT circles.  So, here we go anyway.

BBC Learning Clips

There is a wealth of video clips here.  You can search by Topic or Subject.
You are given quite a lot of blurb along with a short video clip (which can be viewed full screen).